ABSTRACT M/EEG research using naturally spoken stories as stimuli has focused largely
on speech and not language processing. The temporal resolution of M/EEG is a two-edged …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Low-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic input has been hypothesized as a canonical
mechanism that shapes sensory perception in time. Neural entrainment is deemed …

The grammar, or syntax, of human language is typically understood in terms of abstract
hierarchical structures. However, theories of language processing that emphasize …

Music and language are two fundamental forms of human communication. Many studies
examine the development of music‐and language‐specific knowledge, but few studies …

The hierarchical nature of language requires human brain to internally parse connected-
speech and incrementally construct abstract linguistic structures. Recent research revealed …

Human language is generally combinatorial: Words are combined into sentences to flexibly
convey meaning. How the brain represents sentences, however, remains debated. Recently …

Chunking is a key mechanism for sequence processing. Studies on speech sequences have
suggested low-frequency cortical activity tracks spoken phrases, that is, chunks of words …

It is debated whether cortical responses matching the time scales of phrases and sentences
mediate the mental construction of the syntactic chunks or are simply caused by the …

ABSTRACT Ding et al.(2017) contrast their view that language processing is based on
hierarchical syntactic structures, to a view that relies on word-level input statistics. In this …